Discourse markers and their functions have been modeled through a large number of very
diverse frameworks. Most of these models target written language and the discourse …

There is broad consensus on the need to foster oral skills in middle school due to their
inherent importance and because they serve as a tool for learning and acquiring other …

The underlying theme of this book is untruthfulness, which is understood as the expression
of what one believes to be false and conceptualised in view of a neo-Gricean framework …

The recent emergence of large parallel corpora has represented a leap ahead for cross-
linguistic and translation studies. However, the specificities of these corpora and their …

In this paper, we present a tangible outcome of the TextLink network: a joint online database
project displaying and linking existing and newly-created lexicons of discourse connectives …

Connectives are complex lexical items for children, who do not even master connectives
used frequently in speech until the end of their primary school years. In this paper, we …

Discourse connectives are often reported to be difficult for second language learners, yet the
causes of these difficulties are still not fully understood. In this paper, we test the ability of …

Table Syntactic patterns of use of conjunctive markers of contrast Table Relative
frequency of conjunctive markers of contrast in English and French (per million words) …

This book presents both general issues in pragmatic theories and specific arguments for an
inferential approach to pragmatics. At the present time, pragmatics is generally approached …

Implicit discourse relation recognition is an extremely challenging task due to the lack of
indicative connectives. Various neural network architectures have been proposed for this …